This is a transfer news story about Tottenham Hotspur winger Wilson Odobert. But it\u2019s actually MORE a transfer news story about Manchester City\u2019s Savinho\u2026 kind of. We know Spurs are interested in bringing in the 20-year-old Brazilian winger from City, we know that Savinho is open to the move to get first team minutes ahead of the World Cup, and we know that Pep Guardiola is okay with the idea of the club selling him to Spurs despite only buying him last summer.<\/p>\n
But we also know that the transfer deal is being held up via a veto by someone high up in the City hierarchy, ostensibly because they don\u2019t want a repeat of the Cole Palmer Situation\u2122 whereby City sell a promising youngster to a league rival only for them to turn out to be extremely good. There hasn\u2019t been a whole lot of movement on Savinho over the past couple of days, just a couple of thinly sourced reports that Spurs haven\u2019t given up on the idea and are considering testing City\u2019s resolve with a truly massive bid before the close of the window.<\/p>\n
What does this have to do with Wilson Odobert? Well, it\u2019s this \u2014 Savinho would likely waltz straight into the starting lineup at Tottenham should he come, Spurs are pretty packed with good players on both flanks at the moment, are looking for additional reinforcements in what\u2019s left of the window, and Odobert is probably the odd man out. So enter the Italian media! Corriere dello Sport writes today that Roma are interested in a move for Odobert<\/a>, whom Spurs apparently rate at \u20ac25m, as an alternative to Manchester United\u2019s Jadon Sancho.<\/p>\n Now \u2014 this is the part where I tell you that you should always, ALWAYS be skeptical of the Italian media because the ratio of truth to chaff on the various Italian rumor sites is pretty low. But that said, if Tottenham are able to get Savinho\u2019s transfer from City across the line, this is something that might make a lot of sense for Spurs to consider. It feels as though Thomas Frank has now had a good look at his attacking options and Odobert doesn\u2019t appear to be very high in the hierarchy. To be sure there are plenty of games to come and if he stays Wilson will get playing time either as a substitute or a rotation option in injury and multi-week matches. He\u2019s also only 20 so it feels foolish to give up on him. That said, the signs are pointing towards a reduced role and that\u2019s BEFORE any more potential incoming players like Savinho or Maghnes Akliouche.<\/p>\n Roma apparently would be fine with taking Odobert on loan with a purchase option, but he\u2019s listed in a group along with Monaco\u2019s Breel Embolo (Remembering Some Guys), Chelsea youngster George, and Betis\u2019 Abde Ezzalzouli. So this is probably pretty unlikely already, and even more so if Spurs don\u2019t happen to get Savinho.<\/p>\n In the end this is pretty thin gruel, but that said it\u2019s always good to think of possibilities. It\u2019s also a plausible outcome, if certain dominos fall a certain way. It might even be good for Wilson, assuming he\u2019d come in and compete for first choice minutes at Roma. I\u2019m not saying this is going to happen (it probably won\u2019t) but it\u2019s not the worst idea I\u2019ve heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a transfer news story about Tottenham Hotspur winger Wilson Odobert. But it\u2019s actually MORE a transfer…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,80908,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-166669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tottenham-transfer-news-rumors","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115072861836390777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}